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SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE.
liUCIUS C: BRYAN, Editor and Proprietor.
Terms, $4.00 a year, m Advance. . j
Law and Medical Cards.
BRYAN & HARRIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
4A.
rr. OFFIC E fir*’ /ij-ir in fn'coitii .story of
Shark’s Confectionary.
L. C BRYAK: R. H, HARRIS
Mar 14 U . ts.
MITCHELL & MITCHELL,”
ATTORYKY* AT LAW, •
THOMASVILLE, : : : GEORGIA. ‘
■ ry Office over M-Le:in\< store—opposite
Mrl ntvre 5s Yonng's. • •
W. D IlTcaiU. R G„ Mitchell. ■
June ft IT
Sv B. BrKSts.R C I* Hassell.
Spencer & Hansell,
attoryeys at law,
THOMASVILLE, GA.
Will give prompt attention to all legal t.ilsi-
Hess entrusted’ to their care in the. counties of
the Soulhenv Circuit—Decatur of the South-
Western—and Clinch/ Ware and Appling, pf
the Brunswick Circuit.
HpOf Ftct over Meser*. Wolff A Brother's
Store, _ july 4-.ly
W.M. HAYE3. J, A. SEWARD.
HAYES & SEWARD,
ITTOKAEVI AT LAW,
THOMASVILLE, : : GEORGIA.
& ~in
C. c. RICHARDSON,
ATTORNEY
AND
COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
rHo<iAYii,Li:, a.
Juite ft 23 ts
J. K. Kr id. M. U. W.T. HrW itt, M. B.
Dr. REID At Dt W ITT,
OFFER their services to the’ citizens of
Thomasville and vicinity.
l~S r ‘OFFICF <t/ l>r. De Witl’ < Dm ” Shire ,
Feb SI 8-ts
Or. T. S. IIOFKIYS,
OFFICE
■ N MBU LOT with KEMIOF. YCK.
L. O. ARYOLD,
RESIDENT DENTIST
THOMASVILLE, GA.
YXTILL be found at tbe old
Y > stand oeeapied by him for
the lat ten Tear* YjLQrTTr i
Aug 23-12 tn 1
DrT W P. CLOWER
HAVING permanently Unrated in Th©nias
. ville, offers his -I*roJiV**wio*iMl rvi
erm to the [HiUlie.
Bg*“OFFICE at the Drag Store of W. I’,
Clower A Cos.
PENCE — tke boose formerly oc
cupied by Dr. Brandon. mar 14 ly
FEESH
DRUGS!
Dlt I*. S. BOWER has just returned from
New York and Philadelphia, with a large :
#tock of
pfiESH ii min mis.
Purchased with a great deal of care from the
t>est manufacturers in the country—embracing j
every article in tin* Medical Department— ■
which he proposes to sell on as good terms as
can be had in this market.
He would call particular attention to his j
large supply of
FANCY ARTICLES,
Bach as. Soaps. Cologne, Perfumes, Pomades,
Cosmetics, Hair , and Tooth Brushes, Combs,
Ac., all of which he can sell at reasonable !
prices, considering the quality of the articles.-
He has some preparations which will restore >
to the bald bead a beautiful suit of hair, turn
gray hair to its healthy and natural color, and
restore the bloom of youth to the faded visage, j
He would call special attention to his large
stock of Phalon s Night Blooming Cereus, and
Laird's Bloom of Youth. Girt me a Call.
P. S. BOWER.
June 30 25 ts |
APOTHECARY
W. P. CLOWER & CO.,
DRUGGISTS.
Have renovated and refitted the Store next
to Young's Hotel, for the purpose of es
tablishing a
First Class Drug Store.
The new firm ask for a share of patron
age, and invite the attention of the citi
zens to their well selected stock of
Medicines,
Fancy and Toilet Articles,
Soaps and Perfumery.
Fine Green and Black. Teas.
Be rosin** Lamps and Oil,
DYE STI FFS,
Together with every other article usually
kept in a well appointed Drug Store.
Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully
prepared 4—ts
Jan 24
DRUGS
AND
The undersigned having purchase'! the
elegant Drug Store of Dr. Little, take
pleasure in announcing to the people of
Thomasville, and the coustry generally,
that they have just received a full supply
of fresh Drugs and Medicines, Paints.
Oils, Perfumery, Stationery, et., etc. Call
and examine for yourselves
By strict attention to business, courte
ous and honorable dealing with our cus
tomers we hope to merit and receive a libe
ral share of patronage.
WINN & CASSELS.
James N. Wins,
Samcbl J. Cassels.
jan 17tf
THE greatest Purifier and Disinfectant
known—DARBY’S PROPHYLACTIC
FLUID. For sale by
W. P. CLOWER,
aug 23 Druggists.
Commission Merchants.
Smallwood, Hodgkiss & Cos,
COTTON
F actors
AND
GENERA L
COMMISSION
. MERCHANTS,
Xo.'lQ He aver Sf., .Yew York.
J.-L. Sm alLwoon, formerly Smallwood, Earle
& Cos., and J. L. Smallwood & Cos.
Thus. H. Hobckiss, Georgia, 4 Late Hodgkiss,
G.W. Scott, Florida, / Scott &■ Cos.,
’D. H. Poole, Georgia. ) New York.
We are prepared through Resident Agents
to Advance on and Sell Cotton in all the
ston ther■■ I*ort, or forward from These
I*ort to Yew York or I.irerpool Direct,
as our friends may prefer.
Our connections in I.irerpool are such as
will give our customers all the advantages of
. that market.
July 4 • . > 27-ly
AUSTIN & ELLIS,
UMISSII m MWARDII
Morcliants,
Wo. S U KAY ST HE ET,
SAVANNAH,
Thomas 11. Austin, Georgia.
Charles Ellis-.
Oct 4 ‘ din
E. Weitzfelder & Cos.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
A X D
Cotton Factors,
r,O Leonard SI., YEW YORK.
I. Kubitshek 5z Brother, Thom’
as ville, Ga., are acting as our agents, and are
prepared to make liberal advances on all con
signments made to ustlirough them, or directed
tons. oct 4-ts
Duncan & Johnston,
COTTON FACTORS •
COMMISSION
\r i.i j> 1 1 i r a yti n c
jJu Jcli JuixiN xS
#
WAVAYYAkT, : : t CiEOKCJIA.
• ‘ ‘
• REFERS TO
Col. A. T. Mclntire, Thomasville, Ga:
Col. E. Remington,
Donald McLean, Esq., ■ • “
July 25 • Cm
J. IL S. DA VIS & CO.,
AUCTION
COMMISSION
AND
THOMASVILLE, GA.
J. R. S. Davis. G. A. Jeffers.
July 11 28 ts
TISOX& GORDON,
COTTON FACTORS,
COMMISSION AID F0BFA1DII&
Merchants,
•ut. \ SAVANNAH, GA.
WM. H. TISON. WM. W. GORDON.
May 16 6m
J. L VILLALONGrA,
COTTON FACTOR
niruine mb commission
Mcrdiant
No- 94 Bay Street,
jan 1-ts SAVANNAH, GA.
BRIGHAM, HOLST & CO.,
COMMISSION All FORWARDING
AXE £ CHANTS,
H. Brigham, \ SAVANNAH,
C M. Holst, >
C. H. olmstead. y Georgia.
aug 8 6m
W. Hooper Harris, . j. L. Gaines,
Late of Nashville, Late of Asheville,
Tenu. No. Ca.
R. R. 5c R. M. Bearden,
Late of Macon, Ga. .
Harris, Gaines & Cos.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS
And Dealers in .
Liquors, Tobacco and Scsrars,
Grocer's Drugs and Spices,
ASD
20 BEAVER STREET,
L. F. Choice. ) Sew York.
Lateot Milledgeville, Ga. j
REFERENCES;
E. Remington & Son, Thomasville. Ga.
Hardaway & McKinnon, “ “
McQueen >k Mitchell, “ “
July 11 28-3m*
1033 Acres
OF GOOD LAND
FOR sale in Brooks County Ga-, for only
$9,600. Some of these lands are under a.
high state of cultivation—n ith good Dwelling
House, out houses and everv other conve
nience. Freedmen also on the place. The
best bargain ever offered in the country —now
is the time to strike —terms half cash, balence -
secured. Applv at this office.
July II 28 ts
©rimircl Communication.
[FOR the enterprise.]
Repudiation alone will bring relief
to the distressed people of Georgia.
| Asa general thing, they are not ac
countable either to God or man, for
1 debts contracted durin.g or before the
war, unless the act of secession and its
consequent evils are unjustifiable on
i our part; because the people in Con
vention passed the ordinance of seces-
I sion, severing the ties that bound us to
! the Union, and war was the inevitable
result; and after four years of untold
: hardships and unparalleled bravery on
’ the part of the Southern soldiery, the
issue was decided against us, but not
until a powerful army had overrun the
wealthiest part of the State, pilfering
and destroy ing in its ravages almost
! every species of property, and con-
S verting the lairest, portion of our do
main into a howling wilderness. It
was then, the people were called upon
again to meet in Convention, lor the
purpose of repealing tbe ordinance of
secession and abolishing slavery—one
of the. issues of the struggle—which
act completed the work of ruin ; for
some of the wisest and best men of the
country are of the opinion, that nine
tenths of the property of the State was
destroyed. A people thus impover
ished and still oppressed by a relent
less foe, cannot pay their debts, how
ever just they may have been at the
time they were made. The Conven
tion seeing the suffering condition of
the people, repudiated the State debt
to avoid a heavy system of taxation,
which destroyed a large amount of
property in the hands of individuals,
in the shape ol bonds and other means
of indebtedness ? Did they -do right ?
The people generally sustained ihcin
in doiug so. The principle then is
the same. If it was right to release
one part of the State from their indebt
edness to the other, or those who held
the State bonds, it is equally right to
release one individual from his indebto
edness to another. There is no differ*
fence, upon equitable terms, whatever.
Resides, was it their own individual
acts by extravagance, or a course of
profligacy, that they lost their pro.
perty ? Or was it the act of the go
vernment, through its armies and au
lliuiizeil ugtiuls X If It was the act of
government, they are not then accoun
table and should be relieved. Could
a man prevent the enemy from de
stroying his property, or the govern
ment from compelling the people (af
ter they were overpowered by brute
force,) of the South to meet in Con.
vention in the different States, and
abolish slavery; which acts reduced
him from wealth to poverty ? Can he
be blamed for not paying his debts,
when the government has destroyed
his property ? Is there any had morals
in not doing so? If’ so, those bad
morals belong to the government, and
not to the man. Besides, would not;
humanity and Christianity dictate a 1
course of forbearance for such a one ? j
and yet, there are thousands in our !
State, especially in the middle and ‘
upper parts, who are in that condition, ■
and the Homestead Bill will not re- 1
lieve them, neither will their creditors ;
compound with them. If they do, they
differ from the people of Southern |
Georgia. But the demands will be
sued into judgment, and those judg
ments, like an old cancer deeply seated
upon the body, will continue to irritate
and molest them, without any hope of
relief through life, and thus their en- !
ergies will be paralyzed, and the spirit j
of industry and enterprise destroyed, j
and the progress of improvement re- •
tarded throughout the State. Biind
avarice is a base principle, that lies
deeply embodied in the hearts of de
mons, and can only be checked among
men by legislation. Uncontrolled it
will seize its victim by the throat, and
suck the last drop of bloud from its
vitals and grind the poor into the dust.
It is a gormand'zer that devours every
thing, and leaves the balance of the
world to perish, ,I’et, it has its vota*
ries in Georgia, who stalk abroad by
day as well as by night. During the
war they were generally screened be
hind some little exemption, engaged
in buying and selling goods, cotfofi,
and other articles of commodity. Oc
casionally now, you will see them in the
shape of” an attorney at laic, seeking
to plunge the people into an endless
source of litigation ; for the flood gates
are now, through the wisdom of our
legislature, thrown wide open, in order
that they might come in for a share of
the spoil, for there is no class of men
in the State, that would be injured pe
cuniarily, more than the lawyers by
repudiation. But I can see no reason
why they the speculators, and the few
misers scattered over the country,
should swim in ease and [rosperity,
while the unfortunate, who fought our
battles, in the vain effort of preserving
their property are sinking. Wipe out
then, and give every man a fair show
ing, and it will give life and vitality to
trade,to commerce,and toeverybranch
of industry throughout the country,
and roll a burden from the hearts of
the people, which, if possible, is creat
icg greater distress than the war itself.
It is to be regretted, that the mem
bers of our last Legislature were such
poor financiers, in passing the act which
is wrongfully styled, “au act for the
Tliomasville, Georgia, Thursday, October 11,1800.
relief of the people of Georgia.” It is
provided in section first, ‘‘that there
shall be no levy or sale of property of
defendant's, in this State, under any
execution, founded on any judgment,
order, or decree of any Coin hercto
: fore or hereafter to te rendered,, upon
i any contract or liability, made or in
! curred prior to the first of June, 1865,
! provided the said defendant shall pay;
! or pause to be paid during each year,
i ooeffotirth part of the amount of prre
\ cipal and interest of- such execution,
(or of the debt,'’ kc. This does r caliy
seem to be a trap to deprive’ the pep
-1 pie of what little they have left. When,
l iu t.he history of Georgia, in the days
of her greatest prosperity, did her citi
zens pay annually one-fourth of t-heir
indebtedness? The time has-yet to
be recorded—that event has not yet
transpired, and I venture the predict
tion, that it will never occur.” Why.
pass an act then, requiring of the peo
ple an impossibility ? Besides, it is
the opinion of some. of our ablest
judges that, under the law, if the one
fourth should not be paid at the time,,
as required, the whole amount can be
collected. If that decision prevails,
the whole demand will certainly be;
required, and how is.it possible for the
people to pay it ? The short crops
caused by drought and bad culture,
under the free negro system of labor,
has blighted the prospects of the land,
and our people are greatly, distressed
about bread for themselves and fami
lies, to say nothing of paying. their
debts. The result will be, without
relief for the people, that the principal
part of the real estate in the country,
will pass into the hands of the loyal
men of the North, and the few capL
talists at the South; men, in many irn
stances, who would not take the Con .
federate monoy when offered for their
demands, and there, was no way to- 1
compel them, as tile government did
not make it a legal tender, and thus j
the poor and oppressed,- with their.
former slaves, will become “ hewers of
wood and drawers of water.'* Where
is the justice in that ? If that is
Christianity, heaven deliver me from
such a reformation. Justice.
Nerlbt-FM Fi-wspcrtty.
Hon. John Forsyth, writing from
New York to liis paper, the Mobile
Register, says of a portion of Southern ,
l^cnu mrot* w h;*h ho has.tra- i
veled :
“The wealth of this country cannot
be justly measured by its population.
The improvements in machinery, es
pecially as applied to agriculture, al
most dispense with human hands and
the sweat of the brow. —They plough,
sow and reap, with machines, and
man's only occupation is to superin
tend, them. Hence, you ride over a
country dotted with farms, in a high *
state of culture and groaning under i
crops, and are suprised at the lack
of laborers, and wonder who does all ■
this work ! Capital and science have [
supplied the places of our large gangs j
of negroes, and the work goes on as if !
by magic. Thus Pennsylvania with ‘
her ‘3 millions ’ of population, enjoys J
productions equal to the labor-of six j
millions. The same processes would \
make the South a garden of fruitful- j
ness, the abode of a great population,
and the seat of poicsr. Let us take
lessons from our neighbors, ana 2nd
compensation for the sudden destruc- J
tion of our vast labor system. We j
have all that Pennsylvania has, in coal ,
iron and water power, without her .
harsh winter climate. We have pro- j
ducts impossible to her soil. The war
has hewn a pathway for Southern en- j
ergies in anew direction. Let fol
low it, encourage men of labor and !
skill to settle among us, capital, to ex
port our latent resources* and train and
elevate the negro to be able to do his :
part of the grand work of closing the i
gap in material civilization, which our I
hardy Northern neighbors have for so
long kept wide open between us. By
this path, too, men of the South, we
are to recover the political power to.
make our rights respected and sure.
Strength is needful, to t-bis end, in a
wrong-minded world. In States-, as
well as among men, the weak are the
prey to the strong. To work,. then,
for this precious boon of a proud and
free people. • God speed it, and save
my high-hearted country from, the
wrongs and degradation which many
violent men. are burning to inflict upon
them. • . . .
More Fighting in South Ameri
ca.-—Advices from Brazil to the 26th
ultimo are received. Fighting of a
most stubborn and- sanguinary nature
took; place o-n the l6th and 18th of
July, causing a loss of 4,260 killed
and.woanded in the Allied armies, and
an approximate number in the Para*
guayan army. The second Brazilian
army* 9,000 strong, under Ponto Ale
gro, had been incorporated with the
allied forces. Two or three thousand
convalescents had also joined. Further
reinforcements have also been demand
ed and expected from Brazil and the
Argentine Provinces.
Get married, young woman ! never
p-iuse because your suitor is not hand
some. If he is good that is much bet
ter. Few handsome men are good for
much, except to break wives’ hearts
with jealousy, and fail in business, be
cause too much tempted to attend to
it assiduously.
A .Siorr of Wonderful - piooverie—
Three- hundred ajid sixty Buried
Cities—dol'd Coin Vour pounds in-
Weight— Old Te*t-Bficks.
An English” civil engineer, named
Johnson, lptely engaged i-n the trigo
nometrical survey of Cashmere, has
made a curious report of what he -saw
in Chinese part of
; the’ world long inaccessible to Eiiro.
! pcans He'says that while measuring
and triangulating,‘last year, at a’ remote
j station on the borders of Cashmere, he
’ received an invitation to visit the new
ruler of Ivhotan, who had expelled, the
Chinese from his- province, declared
his indeper.dece, and determined to
•enter into’ friendly relations with the
British officer within, reach. ‘ The ad-’
■ venturous Johnson being the handiest
the Khan forthwith requested Iris
presence at the capital, Ilchi. The
way thither lay across the Kiun-Lun
chain of mountains, by a difficult pass
at an elevation- of nineteen thousand
fcet—*-three miles and a half. It was a
hatd journey, but the. indefatigable
Johnson, pushed oti, saw tlie Khan,.
stayed with him for four days; heard
some very wonderful stories, and then
made his way back .by’ the Himalayan
passes —resisting the Khotanese in
’ clination to hold him as a hostage for
the opening of oommcrci'il relations
with England. • •. •
It is said that although German
travellers have previously crossed the J
high mountains which hem in Khotan |
no European has ever before entered ’
Ichij the -capital. The Khan is des- i
cribed as a natural king of men of the
. Carlyiese pattern, eighty years old, six
feet high, stout, of a fair complexion,
and altogether a good specimen of the
old Turkish gentleman, such as he was |
in the days before Ottomans were !
heard of. He rules a province of two j
hundred an fifty thousand inhabitants, {
whereof his capital contains forty thou ‘
sand ; fine strong men, .and short but
pretty women, fair cleanly in apparel, (
and dressing well; all Turks snd Mo
hammedans; great eaters of meat and
dr-inkers of tea; all carrying on a con
siderable trade in the face of great dis- j
fieulties, and most anxious to trade
with the English in particular. The
country, well watered- by moderate-j
showers, and irrigated from the rivers >
which flow northwards from tlie Kiun-
Lun, is fertile and productive enough
oKna . favorable comparison Wllh
Cashmere itself, but its climate is desi
cribed ?.r being much -superior; both
dry and equable. ‘ ‘
The reports brought back by Mr-. ,
Johnson are somewhat Munchausen,
ish. For instance 1 • . ‘.’ •
1. The fertility of the country is
increased by a fine impalpable dust or
mould which is wafted in from the ad
jacent deserts; “without win-d, in per- ■
feet, calm, and fills the air so as to
darken it.” This phenomenal! occur-,
ed during Mr. Johnson’s visit and he
was then unable to read print at neon
without a candle. • It is not explained
how the dust is blown without a wind
but Mr. Johnson says it is “wafted in
a calm” and he cannot be contradic
ted.
2. The storms in the degert raise,
waves of sand which • settle into hills
three hundred to four. hundred feet j
high. Why not one thousand teet!
3. The tradition of the country id j
that, three hundred and sixty cities i
were overwhelmed in or.e day by saud
storms. The sites-of these cities are
partially known; so there is a vast ar
ray. of Fompeiio and Nine.vehs await
ing .somebody’s pickaxe, shovel and
archaeological skill.
4. The people of these buried towns
used gold coins weighing four pounds ;
each-*-but “this is kept a profound
secret by those v.ho know the position. ‘
There is no relic of tlie Broldignaglan
purses in which th:s money was carried
about for every-day use.
5. “The store of tea used for the
actual consumption of the people is
now dug out ot one of these ruined
cities,” and-Mr. Johnson brought a
brick of this tea away with him .“The ,
Chinese supply is now cut off ;".so the
Ichians cut off their supply from these
bricks. . •
. We are. further informed tha-t the
country in which these wonderful
things happened is highly auriferous
—a remark which is perhaps unneces
sary when we remember the fouripound
gold coins which seem to have been
the circulating medium.
Mr. “Johnson's report is about-to be
published in London. An appropriate.
vignette would be drawing cf a long
bow. •• •. ‘ • . •
lot of freedmen left here
. yesterday for Tennessee. ‘ AYe under
stand there was nearly a> car load of
them'.. They go to seek employment
and higher wages... We have ho doubt
many more of them will go between
this and Spring. There will be nei
ther food nor employment in this sec
-1 tion of the country for the large Hum- ’
her of theta he-re. We advise all to
go who can. —Grange (G.) Re
j porter , 28 th. ‘. ‘
.—— - . —^
An Example for the Whole
South. —The committee of the Texas
House of Representatives., to which
was referred the constitutional amend
ment passed by Congress and forward
ed by the Secretary cf State, has re
fused to entertain the question, and
asked to be excused from its further
i consideration.
From tli# Anti -Slavery Journal.'.
The Imprnehment of th Pr'iiliitt—
Wendell l’hillip'-* Plan.
The House of Representative* is
urged to’ impeach President Johnson.
We add our voice to the demand.
There are abundant reasons for the',
measure and the need of it is self-evi
dent. • If the present emergency, does
not demand a “recurrence of” this con
stitutional” m.ethod ot ‘protection, it is
impossible to conceit* cine which
WOlild. • • .
Put we hold impeachment of Tittle
or no value, .indeed useless unless the
House, when it lays it articles of im
peachment before the Senate, demands
that Mr. Johnson be suspended from
the exercise- of his functions, and that
—*— * “act as President until Mr.
Johnson is acquitted", cr,- in any other
result of the trial, until the next Presi
dential term “commences.. .
Without this the constitutional pro-’
vision for the impeachment” of the".
Executive is a sham. As it is the
remedy, is wholly unattainable in ordi
nary circumstances. - Hut it tho itn-.
peached President unlike other acens
"ed and impeached officers, is to be.
allowed to carry oh his illegal schemes
while on .trial and” until the Senate
pronounces him guilty, the whole pro
vision is worse than useless.
• The true rule undoubtedly is, that
when —— , of the House of. lie
presentatives, pronounces the Presii
dent’ guilty of. grave misdeeds, and
offer-} to the Senate evidence •of its
accusation, the incumbent ceases to
have a right to exercise his office until
acquitted. This is the only construct
tion that leaves any value in the con,
stitutionul clause; and when we re>
member how powerful the Executive
must always be to prevent any action
against himself by. the House, we sec
there can be no danger in recognizing
it as the constitutional rule, although
no express'provision for it is made in ‘
that instrument.
Further l till, we urge on the Thirty,
ninth” Congress, before it adjourns, to.
provide” by law for the assembling of
the Fortieth Congress, on.the fifth day
of. March, 1807. A-s the Constitution
now stands, the Fortieth Congress will
not assemble till December, 1807, thus
leaving the whole ierm from Mareh 4
to December 4 of that year, for the
President to plot treason uncontrolled
by Congress. This should never be
allowed. The Constitution gives Con
gress the power to remedy it. Let
there bo -no negloct to exercise this
power aßd save the nation from this
peril: Wendell Phillips.
The Old Man of the Mountain,
or the great stone face, the profile in
the Franconia Mountain, which stands
ou.t from roefty precipice towering a
thousand feet above the beautiful lake
neat’ the Profile House-, is noticed in
the “Journal of Commcrccf which
says-:.. ; • .
‘‘The forehead, nose, mouth, chin,
and even Auaip’s apple on the neck,
all are perfect. Many a man can be
seen whose face resembles it. The
strange fact about this profile, however
not generally known, is that the effect
is produced, not by the “edge.of one
rock, but simply by the social accident
al grouping of various rocks, some
more distant than others. In fact the
front of the top of the precipice.is a
group of rocks about eighty feet high
by a hundred in breadth. The nose
is forty feet west of the forehead The
mouth, Which seems an opening of two
thin lips, is a sidelong chasm or break
of fifty fc-et in extent. Viewed from
the front, the face vanishes, while the
rocks seena inaccessible a.s they hang
in the air ever *he precipitous decent
below.. •. •
William B. Swett, a-deaf mute, and
noted for his wanderings, educated at
the Hartford Asylum, a carpenter by
trade during the paJt summer, pro
duced a very remarkable work, being
.neither more nor less than a sac simile •
in plaster of the great stone lace. His
measurements were accurately made
not without great risk and daring ex->
posure. The work is framed, about 18
inches square. The front view shows
the ragged, rocky face of the precipice
while a side view gives the profile. A
eurious fact, discovered by this work
of Mr. Swett is that the view from the
west, never seen by human eyes, be
cause inaccessible, gives almost as good
a profile as the well-known view from
the east. -The permanent guests at the
Profile House, during the last summer*,.
raised a sum of money as a testimonial
of their appreciation, and advised him
to go to some c.;ty where he could have
it reproduced in pla-ster eopics for sale.
A subscription book was opened,, and
during the season a large number of
subscriptions for copies, at a price not
to exceed” $lO. each, were obtained.
His address is Henniker, N. 11.
fittT A eoarse, ill-natured fellow
died one day, and a few friends assem
bled at his funeral, but not one had a
good word to say about .the deceased.
Even” at the grave all were’ silent. At
last, a good natured Dutchman, as he
turned to go home, saidj ‘Veil, he was
a goot schmoker.’
fc-
. An old lady who had insisted on her
minister praying for rain, had her cab
bages cut up by a. hail storm, and on
viewing the wreck, remarked that she
“ never knew him to undertake any
thing with out overdoing it.”
VOL. VI.—No. 41..
. A Conirurrd t- iirau i.
■Once upon a time, Frederick, King
of Prussia, surnamed ‘Old. Fritz/.’ took
a ride and espied an old farmer plough- •
ing his acre by the Wayside, cheerfully
singing his melody. ,
‘Toy must be well off, old mao/ said
the’ King - r ‘does this acre belong to
you-, wicti you so “industriously labor?’
‘No, sir/ replied the farmer, who did
hot know that ilwas the King. ‘1 am
not so rich as that; I plough for w .
geS-\
‘How much do you get a day asked
.the King. . . • ‘
‘Eight gfoschen/ said the farmer. ■
‘This-is not, much/ replied the
King; ‘can you get along with this 7’. ■
‘Get along, and have something left.*
‘How is that
The far.mer smiled, and said : .
” ‘Well, if I must tell you, two gros
chen are for mySelf and wife; with two
I pay my old debts"; two I lend ; and
two, I give for the lord’s sake/
‘This, is a mystery which I cannot
solve/.replied the King.
‘Then I will solve it fbr you/ said
the farmer. • ‘I have two,’ old parents
at home, who kept me when 1 was
weak and needed help; I keep them ;
this is my debt toward which I pay
two groschen, a day. Tho third pair
groschen, which I lend away, .1 spend
for the children, that they may receive
a Christaid instruction ; this will com*
handy to me and my wife when we
get old.’ With tho last two groschen
I. maintain two sick sisters whom I
w.ould not be compelled-to keep; this
I give for the Lord’s sake/
The King, well • pleased with this
answer, said : ‘Bravely spoken, old
man ! Now I will give you something
to guess. Have you ever seen me be
fore V . •
‘Never/ said the farmer. .
‘lu less than five minutes you shall
sec me fifty times, and carry in your
pocket fifty of my likenesses.
■‘This is a riddle which I cannot un
ravel/ said the farmer.
■ ‘Then I will do it for you/ replied
the King,
.” Thrusting his hand into his pocket,
and counting him fifty new gold piece*
into his hand, stamped with his royal
likeness, he said to the astonished far
mer, who knew not what was coming ;
‘The coin is also genuine, for it also
comes from our Lord God, and I am
his. paymaster.’ . ...
,—
Internal Revenue Receipts.—
The receipts of Internal Revenue, from
July first to date, as compared with
the same period last year, afford an
interesting study. The figures for each
month in each year are as follows :
July, 1865, . -. $21,693,470 75
July. 1866, .• •, 27,079,103 38
August, 1865, .. , 84,087,539 09
August, 1860, . 38,043,340 81
September, 1860, • 37,999,415 82
Sept..lß6o, (21 days). 26,954,382 64
Aggregate for'three months in 1805,
months and 21 days, in 1866, $92,.
076,826-83. ‘ The receipts for the prc
sent quarter will undoubtedly reach .
one hundred millions, or about seven
millions in excess of the same period
last jear, though for the present month
of September, they are likely, to be
about four millions less than for the
same month in 18G5.
• H-
Ox&of the Safes.—Two merchants
were recently f resenting the claims of
their respective articles. One was a
Yankee, the other wasn’t. He that
wasn’t told his story. A gamecock had
been shut up in one of his safes, and
then it was exposed for three days to
the most intense heat. When the
door was opened the eock stalked out
as if nothing had happened. It was
now the. Yankee’s turn. A eock had
been-shut up in one of his safes, with
a pound of fresh butter, and the safe
was submitted to the trial of a tremen
dous heat for more than a week. Th©
legs of the safe were melted off, and
the door itself so far fused as to require
a eold chisel to get it open, When it
was opened the coek was found froze a
dead, and the butter so solid that *
man who knocked off a piece of it with
a hammer, had his eye put out with
the butter splinter.
. ■
A “Western editor lately lost hi*
sweetheart, but h* has all that made
her lovely. He has her eurls, her
frizzle, her fats, her waterfall ! H©
• has her spiral palpitators, her store
teeth and her ealves. He has put all
things in their order—has them hung
00 wires—-and intends to melt a little
girl and pour her into the fixings and
have another Miranda*
Soft Soap for All.-—¥ or a lieuten
ant, call” him captain; for a middle
aged lady, kiss her, and say that you
mistook h.er .for her daughter ; for a
young gentleman rising fifteen, ask his
opinion respecting the comparative
merits of a razor; for young ladies, if
you know their color to be natural, ac
cuse them of painting.
®@P*The Knoxville Commercial in
forms us that large numbers of negroes
from Georgia, Alabama and Florida,
are pouring into East Tennessea, and
that, upon inquiry, their purpose is
found to be to settle there at the in
. stance of Brownlow and his agents,
with a view of controlling the State
elections in favor of Radicalism.